Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Three Years Ago . . .

Robert and Ashley were sealed for time and all eternity in the Las Vegas temple.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Ashley loves quotes and put up a whole wall of them at her wedding. This was one of my favorites:

Love is the emblem of ETERNITY it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of the beginning, all fear of an end.

Truly the way RobDob and Ashpants love each other!

Look for a wedding post tomorrow with more pictures!

*Robert's fever got up to 102 last night, they brought it down with meds today and it has been hovering around 100.6 all afternoon. His tongue is quite swollen making him difficult to understand, and his mouth is causing him the most pain right now. The second culture for infection came back negative! Yeah!

The docs are giving Robert small pushes of the anti-rejection meds (less than he received his last transplant) through his catheter. They will start to back them off over the next two days. This should allow his recovery to speed up, and get graph vs. host symptoms (hopefully mild ones).

He is still very sleepy and a bit out of it because he is on morphine and so many other meds. Ashley is not sure he knew today was their anniversary. Keep the prayers coming! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Our Heroes

Donations to the Hope Trust

Donations will go to the Robert Ashworth Memorial Fund to benefit his wife, Ashley.

Fundraising!

We finished our cookbook! ORDER yours today. Proceeds from the cookbooks will go to the Hope Trust Fund. To order a cookbook go here.

Robert's Story

Robert Kenneth Ashworth, 25 won his fight with leukimia (AML), just not the way we hoped. He passed away December 13, 2009. He was first diagnosed in November 2007 and completed four rounds of chemo and a bone marrow transplant in the following 9 months. He recovered from end of July 2008 until the leukemia returned in February 2009. He received a second bone marrow transplant and won his fight again. He was cancer free from October until December. He is survived by his wife Ashley, 24 and his parents Linda and Ken Ashworth. We are telling their story here.